but it's done in public where anyone observing the count can see that the people counting don't have any pencils etc in their hand
replyExactly - it's done in public, and not centrally. Any citizen can go and check how it's done in their own Geminde.
replyYeah but it cannot be hacked from the other side of the world. I think it's a different kind of threat.
replyIf an attacker from somewhere else in the world want to tamper with their votes, they have to get Swiss people to modify the ballots, or get their agent to learn Swiss-German, good luck with that :D.